Donkey of the Day for Wednesday, April 13th goes to Bill O'Reilly.
Bill O'Reilly has done the unbelievable, yall. He's done something that is damn near impossible to do nowadays. Bill O'Reilly has managed to get a higher five-star rating in the racist department than Donald Trump. 'Round of a applause to him, ok. AND he did while having a conversation WITH Donald Trump. Let's just say if Donald Trump's "My Racist Ranking" is 99, then Bill O'Reilly found a way to be higher than that, ok. Whatever Steph Curry's My Player ranking will be on next year's NBA 2k16 in Bill O'Reilly's "My Racist Ranking" will be hire than that.
Now on Monday, Bill O'Rascist was talking with Donald Trump how he would build a relationship with African-Americans by addressing unemployment. No need to hear it from me, listen for yourself.
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Trump:"You have with black youth, with African-American youth, you have a fifty-nine percent unemployment. With people of prime age it's much hire. "
O'Reilly:"But how are you gonna get jobs for them, many of them are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads, and and ,you know, how are you gonna...and I hate to be generalized about it, but it's true, if you look at all the educational statistics, how are you gonna get jobs to people who aren't qualified for jobs."
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DJ Envy: I aint gotta tattoo on my forehead!
Angela Yee: Wow
Charlemagne: In reference to black people, Bill O'Reilly said "many of them are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads, and I hate to be generalized about this, but it's true." How can you say "You hate to generalize about it", but say "it's true."
Angela Yee: I don't know that I grew up with...maybe some artist that come up here, but not nobody that I....
Charlemagne: That's a fact, most generalizations are not true, ok, black people are not a monolith, alright. You can't just say, when it comes to African-Americans, many of them...You can't just define many of them ok, I know many black kids who are highly educated, who are attending universities, like Harvard, ok. When I spoke at Harvard about a month ago I took my daughter there to specifically see to see the many people of color who are very educated.
Angela Yee: No one in this room has a tattoo on their forehead, except the white camera guy.
Charlemagne: The people at Harvard are very educated and don't have tattoos on their foreheads. In fact, I don't know about yall, but like Angela Yee said, I don't run into black people too much with tattoos on their foreheads too often. Most of the time when I see black people with tattoos on their forehead they're rappers or some crazy pic posted by academics in the shade room or Baller Alert. But this generalization that you did on your show, Bill, is dangerous.
There's white people who watch your show that don't have interactions with black people on a regular basis, and you reinforce another negative stereotype on top of all the other negative stereotypes of us that already exist in most of their minds ok. Bill O'Racist, do you realize generalizations like yours is the reason black men get profiled and stereotyped?
What if I said "many young white men have funny haircuts and go shoot and kill random people in churches, schools, movie theaters..." You'd have a FIT if somebody did a generalization like that. You'd chop those various situations like Dylann Roof or James Holmes, you would chop that up as isolated incidents; Individual acts of crazy. You would have a fit if I came on your show and generalized all white people like that, so don't do that to us, ok?
Bill O'Racist, you clearly don't hang out with many black people, or for this matter be around many black people, because if you did then you would realize, simply, that many of them are educated, AND don't have tattoos on their forehead, ok? You can't speak these untruths without more experience of the black people you're talking about. This is disturbing, because not only do you believe that, there's other people out there that believe this BS as well.
This is why "many" cops profile black people, and think all black men are always up to no good. Am I allowed to use "many" in that situation, when it comes to cops? I bet money Bill O'Racist would be against THAT generalization, if somebody said that on his show. What if I said "many" anchors on Fox News make racist bias statements towards minorities, would that be an accurate generalization? I don't know, but I would never say that because I deal with people on an individual case-by-case basis, the way you do, with everybody but minorities, Bill.
Give Bill O'Racist the biggest hee-haw, please.
